The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

Hatred destroys the person who hates.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.